Sony PS4 Game Price Fears for UK

Are you excited about the upcoming PS4 yet? Sony hasn’t committed to an official release date yet, but they have said at least that the PS4 will be arriving during the 2013 Holiday period in the US. Another crucial piece of information that we haven’t heard about yet is pricing, but retailers in the UK are already starting to have their say on individual game prices.

If they are priced at 70 dollars in the US, you will see a lot of people waiting for a price drop to purchase games and less people buying at release. I would forget about buying my games digital as well.

That would mean Nintendo's home console again will have the lower priced games this coming generation when all next gen systems are released.

Well $70 would be £45 so it could happen since that's only £5 more than we have to spend for a brand new game in the UK. If the games were priced as £70 though it would be roughly $100 for a game in the US and I don't see anyone spending that much on a standard videogame.

Games currently cost $60 plus tax and i'm getting them ON RELEASE DAY FOR EFFECTIVELY $33 via store credit, credit card cash back and deals the store had on buying gift cards at a discount earlier in the year.

THIS IS CHEAPER THAN WHEN I BOUGHT PS2 GAMES FOR $50 BACK WHEN I WORKED PART TIME IN HIGHSCHOOL 10 years ago.

Looking at the math... If we have a 2.5% rate of inflation and games were $50 in 2003 then games should have been $60 starting in 2011 and they should be $65 by this year not including tax, but the problem is that a lot of peoples' wages have not gone up whereas CEOs are now making 100s of millions per year. THe highest paid CEO in Chicago makes more in 1 hour than an average worker makes in 1 year. No exaggeration.

Games have never been as cheap as they are now because of the competition Amazon has brought to the brick and mortar retailers.

If you shop around you'll still get good if not better deals than what games cost in the past. You only get screwed if you:

1. Don't shop around or dealhunt in advance (thank you cheapassgamer.com)

2. Don't preorder

3. Don't wait for pricecut if you skip release day

4. Don't wait for Blackfriday Madness for whatever you didn't have time for earlier. I still haven't finished last year's BF backlog...

I don't mind $65 games on release if that means they'll rip us off less on the DLC. Profits on DLC must be crazy. It's all digital so there's no need to pay people to handle anything. They should ease up on the DLC prices if anything. Enough with the $15 PSN games before they go on sale.... That's where the prices are steep right now.

Because they have to keep it going or they will have nothing to talk about. Sony said games will be $60.00 and they won't block used games etc. But they still have to milk the rumor for all it's worth and pretend that that it is still in play. That is mostly why people keep talking about invisible consoles and how there is no PS4 and all that crap. They were so eager for the rumors to be true that they are still in denial that they aren't

from £40 to £70 is not a "$10" increase. It's a $40 increase. Anyways, the price isn't going to be that high. Someone from that retailer probably heard about EA CFO's comments about $69.99 next gen games, as was too stupid to understand that he said "dollars" and not "Pounds".

@bryam1982 The minimum wage in the UK at this moment for adults aged 21 and up is £6.19/hour.

But the minimum wage shouldn't come into this. For the current gen, games which cost $60 in the US cost £40 here. So inflation and earning power has already been adjusted. So when there in an increase in one place, the 'factor' of increase in the second place should be identical.

Xbox games will be cheaper than PS4 games due to no 2nd hand gaming being allowed on the Xbox, this allows Microsoft to slightly lower game prices and make a larger profit due to a larger volume of sales. XD